Example sentences of "[pers pn] [pron] have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker . |
| 2 | I see me I 've been coming off my and she turned round and says , No . |
| 3 | I even told them I had been recommended for a commission . |
| 4 | Well I I 've been sent a local |
| 5 | Certainly I I 've been aware for a while now that there have been problems at Kingslane general in terms of of break ins erm not just specifically with the launderette but with also the community room er there and certainly I I 've been engaged in making one or two suggestions about how security measures could be improved . |
| 6 | Right some of our speakers are retires I I 've been retired quite a number of years , as you 'll have noticed I give the talk on income tax and I 'm a retired tax inspector . |
| 7 | Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on . |
| 8 | Now I I 've been selling hairpieces for twenty three years so I 'm probably better in a better position than anybody here to explain the emotions of men who 're losing their hair . |
| 9 | I was going to light it I I 've been lighting it until er the beginning of the week I think . |
| 10 | I I 've been coming here for forty years so far and and provocative statement I think in your programme this Autumn is the best that you 've had for years it 's a very good combination of classical and and modern plays and I really congratulate you on this programme and I would like to see that standard maintained . |
| 11 | Yes well we I I 'd been working on the Menai Suspension Bridge repa you know , when they were rep doing the repairing like . |
| 12 | As I said I I had been told that er he was associated with and they had been planning ar armed robberies in the past . |
| 13 | Well , erm I I have been accosted a few times to do a few things , you know erm like I say , prostitution , they think probably because you 're on your own , everybody else , because one , say one person in the block is one , then you are one as well , you know . |
| 14 | Well , there will be a certain amount of explanation that will have to be done , because Geoffrey Howe is a well known , well liked figure among many people that I deal with er but now , and for some time now , for a year now , it 's I who have been dealing with them and I hope I 've inherited some of the work and some of the trust which he helped to create . |
| 15 | Er I what 's been said about the report and I think it identifies the main issues . |
| 16 | They would n't join the grown-ups for a good many years , though the Sheikha 's daughter had been my meal companion before I myself had been accepted by the ‘ grown-ups , . |
| 17 | Further , representatives of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board have had access to a large quantity of files in [ that state ] and copies of certain of them which have been returned to London , and among these files is documentation concerning the affairs of your clients . |
| 18 | Just that someone told me you 'd been seeing her . |
| 19 | ‘ But you were telling me you had been warned , the night of our God-given victory . ’ |
| 20 | Rosa told me you had been enthralled with the baby , how adorable you thought she was . |
| 21 | ‘ Antonia told me she had been watching Mellor on TV in the run up to the General Election and said she had suddenly been taken over by this incredible desire for him and that she badly wanted to meet him . |
| 22 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 23 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 24 | ‘ It seemed to me she 'd been worn down by leading a life she was n't fitted for . |
| 25 | And then a few weeks ago she told me she 'd been invited to go and see him at his house or ‘ castle ’ as Blufton prefers to call it . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Then she told me she 'd been offered a part in Jane Eyre at Warrington rep and did I think she ought to accept . |
| 27 | And now , her hand outstretched , and with a break in her voice , she appealed to Ben : ‘ Do n't tell me she 's been picked up . |
| 28 | Though she had said she was too young for them she had been enraptured by them in a tiny jeweller 's in Pollensa but Fernando had hurried her away saying he would buy her the real thing one day . |
| 29 | Police confirmed Joanna had told them she had been assaulted , but refused to give details . |
| 30 | There would be no need to tell them she had been driving very fast . |